Airports fill with long lines and broken blue screens following cancellations and delays due to global IT outage
Airports devolved into scenes of chaos early Friday after ground stops were issued because of a massive IT outage felt across the globe.
Airports devolved into scenes of chaos early Friday after ground stops were issued because of a massive IT outage felt across the globe.
Long lines, crowded gates and agitated passengers became common scenes at major airports. At John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Los Angeles International Airport, monitors usually displaying flight departure times were replaced with malfunctioning blue screens.
More than 3,800 flights were delayed within, to or out of the United States as of 10 a.m., and over 1,400 were canceled, according to FlightAware data. Globally, there have been over 25,000 delays and more than 2,500 cancellations, according to the tracker.
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, the biggest carriers in the U.S., all issued ground stops early Friday.
Passengers await updates at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Friday.Mailee Osten-Tan / Getty ImagesDelta said in a statement, “All Delta flights are paused as we work through a vendor technology issue,” and by 8 a.m. said it "has resumed some flight departures." Meanwhile, United said, “While we work to restore those systems, we are holding all aircraft at their departure airports.”
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